snmpd reports /proc/net/ipv6_route data format error.
Issue
- Following messages were logged on our customer's system.
Feb 3 15:27:34 server snmpd[24479]: /proc/net/ipv6_route data
format error (5!=8), line ==|fe80000000000000021018fffeaef73c 80 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000 00000001 00000000
80200001 lo |
Feb 3 15:52:11 server snmpd[24479]: /proc/net/ipv6_route data
format error (5!=8), line ==|fe80000000000000021018fffeaef73c 80 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000 00000001 00000000
80200001 lo |
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According to sosreport information, it is seen that format of /proc/net/ipv6_route was wrong. The second line is wrong.
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Excerpt from /proc/net/ipv6_route
<snip>
fe80000000000000021018fffeaef73c 80 00000000000000000000000000000000 00 00000000000000000000000000000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 80200001 lo
fe80000000000000021018fffeaef73c 80 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 80200001 lo
fe80000000000000021018fffeaef73e 80 00000000000000000000000000000000 00 00000000000000000000000000000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 80200001 lo
<snip>
- The same phenomenon also occurred when it was collected by other tool. So, it looks that it is not an only timing issue.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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